Investor Relations Manager

Job Type: Permanent

Location: This role will be based in our London office with time spent working in the office and at home, as well as some limited domestic and international business travel.

Flexible working: All of our roles are open to part-time, job-share and other types of flexibility. We will discuss what is important to you and balancing this with business requirements during the recruitment process. You can read more about Phoenix Flex here.

Closing Date: 08/08/2025

Salary and benefits: up to £146,000 DOEplus an indicative bonus range of 30% - 60%, private medical cover, 38 days annual leave (including bank holidays), excellent pension, 12x salary life assurance, income protection, 3x volunteering days and much more

We have an incredible opportunity to join us here at Phoenix Group as an Investor Relations Senior Manager within our Investor Relations team, where you will take a lead role in supporting the team’s vision of becoming a “best in class” FTSE 100 Investor Relations function.

Who are we?

We want to be the best place that any of our 6,600 colleagues have ever worked.

We’re Phoenix Group, we’re a long-term savings and retirement business. We offer a range of products across our market-leading brands, Standard Life, SunLife, Phoenix Life and ReAssure. Around 1 in 5 people in the UK has a pension with us. We’re a FTSE 100 organisation that is tackling key issues such as transitioning our portfolio to net zero by 2050, and we’re not done yet.

The role

We are looking to appoint an Investor Relations Senior Manager to support the Investor Relations Director in all aspects of the running the Investor Relations function, in order to communicate the Group’s equity story and business performance to investors, sellside analysts and the broader financial markets.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Leading on the development and preparation of half year and full year results materials including: presentation decks, RNS announcements, management scripts and Q&A documents.
• Supporting the creation of the Strategic Report section of the Annual Report including writing high-quality narrative and commentary to convey the performance of the business to our external stakeholders in a simple way.
• Supporting in the delivery of all other investor communications such as ad hoc RNS announcements and materials for other events such as Capital Markets Days or M&A transactions as required.
• Leading the development and delivery of a strategy for expanding the equity investor base internationally through high quality investor targeting and supporting materials as needed.
• Building relationships with institutional investors including attending and leading investor meetings.
• Building relationships with the sell side analyst community and acting as a key point of contact for queries.
• Researching and responding to investor and analyst queries in a timely manner.
• Working closely with our corporate brokers and other capital markets advisers with the objective of achieving valuable input to communications with shareholders and independent strategic advice.
• Supporting the Treasury team with the debt investor relations programme.
• Networking effectively throughout Phoenix to ensure that we convey strong external messages and that we build the profile of the IR team within the organisation.
• Acting as a deputy to the Investor Relations Director as required.

What are we looking for?

• A professional financial qualification such as an accountancy qualification, CFA, FIA, or similar
• Demonstrable financial services experience and knowledge, ideally within life insurance
• Capital markets experience, either in investor relations or in a buy side or sell side capacity
• Strong numerical and analytical skills with a rigorous attention to detail
• Excellent verbal communication and relationship building skills, and confident working with C-Suite and Board members
• Must be a very strong writer with an ability to distil complex concepts into simple messages
• Dynamic, enthusiastic and flexible individual, comfortable with working in a constantly evolving environment and to very tight deadlines

We want to hire the whole version of you.

We are committed to ensuring that everyone feels accepted and welcome applicants from all backgrounds. If your experience looks different from what we’ve advertised and you believe that you can bring value to the role, we’d love to hear from you.

If you require any adjustments to the recruitment process, please let us know so we can help you to be at your best.

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